Test 7 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Possum Has No Hair on His Tail: Brer Possum l…

What did Brer Bear do when he got there?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Brer · What happens: do, get

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 583 «Uncle Remus, Possum Has No Hair on His Tail: Brer Possum loses his tail hair while stealing Brer Bear's persimmons.» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 do	aux
3	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 do	nsubj
4	Bear	Bear	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Brer	flat
5	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	acl:relcl
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 got	advmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 got	nsubj
8	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 do	advcl
9	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 got	advmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · do-support	Brer						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	get	past	Brer			there			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1

roared at the tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	roared	roar	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	4 tree	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 tree	det
4	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 roared	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roar	participle				the tree			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at tree=Location

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

grabbed Possum tight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	grabbed	grab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	Possum	Possum	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 grabbed	obj
3	tight	tight	ADV	_	1 grabbed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grab	past		Possum				tight property	vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent possum=Theme

Option 3

shook him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 shook	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shake	past		him = he					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

busted in and shook

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	busted	bust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	1 busted	compound:prt
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 shook	cc
4	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 busted	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bust in	participle							vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	shake	past							vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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